Bow tie



Patented June 10, 1947 Bow Alfred F. Taborski, Buffalo, N. Y.

Application August 30, 1944, Serial No. 551,857

2 Claims.

` is to provide means for easily and quickly detachably connecting the wing portions to the knot structure of the tie and which at the same time presents an article of a neat and attractive appearance, relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Gther objects and advantages reside in the de-` tails of construction and operation, as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof, and wherein like numerals refer to like parts, throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view.

Figure 2 is a top plan view with the knot structure shown in section.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on a line 3--3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a similar View taken substantially on a line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a, perspective view of one of the wing-connecting members.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, wh'erein for the purpose of illustration I have disclosed a preferred embodiment of the invention, the

' numerals 5 and 6 designate the wing portions of a bow tie and the numeral I designates the knot structure at the center of the tie and to which the wings are connected.

The knot structure l is formed of a barrel 8 of suitable rigid material, each end of the barrel being provided with an incompleted annular ilange 9 forming an opening I0 at one side of the flange.

A pair of follower discs Il and l2 are `slidably mounted in the barrel adjacent the opposite ends thereof and yieldably urged outwardly against the flanges 9 by means of a coil spring I3.

The wing portions 5 and 6 may be constructed of cloth, plastic, or other suitable material, and inserted in each of the inner ends of the wings is a plate member I4 having openings l5 therein 2 by means of which' the plate member may be attached to the wing by stitching or the like (not shown). The outer end of the plate member I4 is formed with a disc I6 extending laterally with respect to the plate and adapted for insertion through the openingk II1- into a position behind th'e iiange 8 and held against the flange by one of the discs I I. The disc I6 is formed with an opening I1 and the outer surface of each of the discs Il are formed with an outwardly struck knob or protuberance I8 adapted to seat in the opening I1 of the disc I I to secure th'e latter against accidental outward sliding movement through the opening l0 of the flange.

A plate I9 is attached to the rear side oi the barrel 8, each end of the plate being provided with eyes 20 by means of which the tie may be secured in position on a collar through the medium of an elastic band attached to the eyes 20.

The barrel 8 may be substantially enclosed within a plastic or light weight metal clip 2l of a desired color, and it will be apparent that the wing members 5 and 6 may likewise be constructed of a desired color and easily and quickly mounted in position at the ends of the knot struc ture by sliding the discs I6 through the opening I0 behind the flanges 9, the'dscs I6 and the wings attached thereto thus being iirmly held in position through the tension of the spring I3.

It is believed the details of construtcion, manner of use and advantages of the device will be readily understood from the foregoing without further detailed explanation.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A bow tie as an article of manufacture and including a tubular simulated knot structure and a pair of separable and replaceable wing members, a rigid member carried at the inner end o1 each of said wing members, said rigid members each having a transverse disc portion at its outer end, the tube of said knot struct-.urev having incomplete annular flanges at its opposite ends, each nan-ge merging cooperatively with a lateral slotted end portion of the tube, the respective slots being each of a width corresponding to the diameter of the disc portion of the rigid member at the end of the correlated wing members so as to enable frictional gripping engagement of the respective disc members with the ange portions of the knot structure tube, and opposed' spring-urged members carried within the tube of the knot structure for clamping said disc portions of the Wing members against the said flanges of the tube of said knot structure.

2. A bow tie comprising a tubular simulated knot structure, spring means housed in the knot structure, a pair of follower discs in the knot structure each engaged by an end of the spring and having a central protuberance on its outer side, a pair of flanges each integral with and spaced from an end of the knot structure and eX- tending radially thereof and forming the fragment of a ring having an opening on its rear side, a pair of discs each of a diameter tting it between one of the flanges and an end of the knot structure and having a, central aperture for one of the protuberances, connecting means integral v with the rear edge of each disc and extending` at right angles thereto, and a wing portion connected to eacli connecting member.

IKALFRED F. TABORSKI.

5 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS 10 Number Name Date 1,665,509 Smith Apr. 10, 1928 FOREIGN PATENTS Number t Country Date 15 1,519 Great Britain Apr. 7, 1881 181,805 Germany Mar. 1, 1907 136,271 Great Britain 1919 110,733 Germany May 19, 1900 

